Ketuvim
Shir HaShirim8
Song of Songs · Chapter 8
O that thou
wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!
when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
I would lead thee,
and bring thee into my mother’s house,
who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
His left hand
should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
I charge you, O daughters of Yerushalayim, that ye stir not up, nor awake
my love, until he please.
Who
is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth
that bare thee.
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love
is strong as death; jealousy
is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof
are coals of fire,
which hath a most vehement flame.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if
a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
If she
be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she
be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
I
am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
Shelomoh had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand
pieces
of silver.
My vineyard, which
is mine,
is before me: thou, O Shelomoh,
must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear
it.
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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Ruth · Chapter 1
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
And the name of the man
was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one
was Orpah, and the name of the other Rut: and they dwelled there about ten years.
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
Then she arose with her daughters in torah, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had visited his people in giving them bread.
Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in torah with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in torah, Go, return each to her mother’s house: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) grant you that ye may find rest, each
of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me?
are there yet
any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Turn again, my daughters, go
your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope,
if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) is gone out against me.
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in torah; but Rut clave unto her.
And she said, Behold, thy sister in torah is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in torah.
And Rut said, Intreat me not to leave thee,
or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people
shall be my people, and thy Elohim my Elohim:
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) do so to me, and more also,
if ought but death part thee and me.
When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
So they two went until they came to Beit Lechem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beit Lechem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said,
Is this Naomi?
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
I went out full, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath brought me home again empty: why
then call ye me Naomi, seeing 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
So Naomi returned, and Rut the Moabitess, her daughter in torah, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beit Lechem in the beginning of barley harvest.
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Ruth · Chapter 2
And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name
was Boaz.
And Rut the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after
him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field
belonging unto Boaz, who
was of the kindred of Elimelech.
And behold, Boaz came from Beit Lechem, and said unto the reapers, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
be with you. And they answered him, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) bless thee.
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel
is this?
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It
is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
Then said Boaz unto Rut, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
Let thine eyes
be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of
that
which the young men have drawn.
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I
am a stranger?
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in torah since the death of thine husband: and
how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched
corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
And let fall also
some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave
them, that she may glean
them, and rebuke her not.
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
And she took
it up, and went into the city: and her mother in torah saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
And her mother in torah said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in torah with whom she had wrought, and said, The man’s name with whom I wrought to day
is Boaz.
And Naomi said unto her daughter in torah, Blessed
be he of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man
is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
And Rut the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
And Naomi said unto Rut her daughter in torah,
It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in torah.